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Contemporary hermeneutics is an unavoidable, but deeply troubled, discipline. At the root of the problem is the classic epistemological question, """"What makes an interpretation justifiable?"""" Since the beginning of Modernity, interpreters have offered multiplied answers to this question. Historicity, linguistics, social constructs, and contemporary flashes of revelation are but a few of the proposed solutions, but if the question is ultimately epistemological, it follows that the answer may emerge from this same place. Current research in the field of virtue epistemology has awakened interest in a new path forward for hermeneutics by looking to a time before the emergence of unstable modern frameworks. In Virtue Hermeneutics, a justified understanding of Scripture that engages all of the participants in the interpretive dialogue (author, text, reader, and reading community) is discovered in the interpretive character of the wise reader. From this starting point, hermeneutics is able to move forward in a way that is responsive to contemporary challenges to discerning literary meaning. Ultimately, a justified understanding is one that virtuously engages the author, the text, and all reading communities. The illuminating work of the Holy Spirit in hermeneutics takes on a refreshing and meaning-filled place when readers readmit intellectual virtues into the discussion.

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"""When it comes to biblical hermeneutics, transferable skills and even methods matter much less than transformed character. Robert Eby's Virtue Hermeneutics heads to the top of the class of books that recognize the importance of forming interpreters into the sort of persons best suited to understand texts rightly: right-minded and right-hearted persons of hermeneutical virtue. I particularly appreciated his list of ten interpretive virtues and his recognition of the Spirit's role in forming them."" --Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School ""Eby makes important contributions to the fields of hermeneutics and analytic theology by showing how themes from contemporary virtue epistemology offer resources for charting a middle course between the Scylla of postmodern relativism and the Charybdis of na�ve Enlightenment rationalism."" --Kenneth Boyce, University of Missouri"

When it comes to biblical hermeneutics, transferable skills and even methods matter much less than transformed character. Robert Eby's Virtue Hermeneutics heads to the top of the class of books that recognize the importance of forming interpreters into the sort of persons best suited to understand texts rightly: right-minded and right-hearted persons of hermeneutical virtue. I particularly appreciated his list of ten interpretive virtues and his recognition of the Spirit's role in forming them. --Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Eby makes important contributions to the fields of hermeneutics and analytic theology by showing how themes from contemporary virtue epistemology offer resources for charting a middle course between the Scylla of postmodern relativism and the Charybdis of naive Enlightenment rationalism. --Kenneth Boyce, University of Missouri

When it comes to biblical hermeneutics, transferable skills and even methods matter much less than transformed character. Robert Eby's Virtue Hermeneutics heads to the top of the class of books that recognize the importance of forming interpreters into the sort of persons best suited to understand texts rightly: right-minded and right-hearted persons of hermeneutical virtue. I particularly appreciated his list of ten interpretive virtues and his recognition of the Spirit's role in forming them. --Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Eby makes important contributions to the fields of hermeneutics and analytic theology by showing how themes from contemporary virtue epistemology offer resources for charting a middle course between the Scylla of postmodern relativism and the Charybdis of naive Enlightenment rationalism. --Kenneth Boyce, University of Missouri When it comes to biblical hermeneutics, transferable skills and even methods matter much less than transformed character. Robert Eby's Virtue Hermeneutics heads to the top of the class of books that recognize the importance of forming interpreters into the sort of persons best suited to understand texts rightly: right-minded and right-hearted persons of hermeneutical virtue. I particularly appreciated his list of ten interpretive virtues and his recognition of the Spirit's role in forming them. --Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Eby makes important contributions to the fields of hermeneutics and analytic theology by showing how themes from contemporary virtue epistemology offer resources for charting a middle course between the Scylla of postmodern relativism and the Charybdis of naive Enlightenment rationalism. --Kenneth Boyce, University of Missouri

When it comes to biblical hermeneutics, transferable skills and even methods matter much less than transformed character. Robert Eby's Virtue Hermeneutics heads to the top of the class of books that recognize the importance of forming interpreters into the sort of persons best suited to understand texts rightly: right-minded and right-hearted persons of hermeneutical virtue. I particularly appreciated his list of ten interpretive virtues and his recognition of the Spirit's role in forming them. --Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Eby makes important contributions to the fields of hermeneutics and analytic theology by showing how themes from contemporary virtue epistemology offer resources for charting a middle course between the Scylla of postmodern relativism and the Charybdis of naive Enlightenment rationalism. --Kenneth Boyce, University of Missouri

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Robert Eby is Associate Professor of Biblical Exposition at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri.

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